nickthetasmaniac
Veteran
Sure, if you're using it as a portfolio.
It's buggerall photos if you're using it as a hosting site for over a decade's worth of work...
dmr
Registered Abuser
I had a sneaky feeling that I was smart getting my own domain!
On “Quantity v Quality”
On “Quantity v Quality”
Whether 1000 images is enough or not depends perhaps on why members add them to the site. Images can be a source of information quite apart from any artistic merits or lack thereof. Eg I follow NASA’s account which often includes historically interesting or important images. Are they great photographs? Not always. But that doesn’t mean they’re not worth seeing. Other accounts I follow include members who post images related to camera repair, or old photo magazine articles. Yes most of these are probably already pro members but this has no bearing, philosophically, on the point of “quality v quantity” of images.
I have around 500 images added using my free account to which I will occasionally add more. A few of those include some scans of found Kodachrome slides for historical interest. Every time I add a new image I see a message informing that I have used less than 1% of my allotted terabyte. I don’t have a problem, at all, with the new owners of Flickr placing limits on free account image uploads, but I definitely think it should be based on total file storage rather than the numbers of images.
On “Quantity v Quality”
Whether 1000 images is enough or not depends perhaps on why members add them to the site. Images can be a source of information quite apart from any artistic merits or lack thereof. Eg I follow NASA’s account which often includes historically interesting or important images. Are they great photographs? Not always. But that doesn’t mean they’re not worth seeing. Other accounts I follow include members who post images related to camera repair, or old photo magazine articles. Yes most of these are probably already pro members but this has no bearing, philosophically, on the point of “quality v quantity” of images.
I have around 500 images added using my free account to which I will occasionally add more. A few of those include some scans of found Kodachrome slides for historical interest. Every time I add a new image I see a message informing that I have used less than 1% of my allotted terabyte. I don’t have a problem, at all, with the new owners of Flickr placing limits on free account image uploads, but I definitely think it should be based on total file storage rather than the numbers of images.
coogee
Well-known
Doubling the price is quite the move!
The cost now opens up a lot more alternatives, I'd be open to finding out what they are, any particular affinity I ever felt towards Flickr is long, long gone, like over 10 years gone.
The 'partner discount' on Adobe is 15% in the first year only of a full Adobe Creative Cloud Membership. It won't allow application on a Lightroom/Photoshop only subscription for example, it has to be the complete suite of all Adobe applications.
The cost now opens up a lot more alternatives, I'd be open to finding out what they are, any particular affinity I ever felt towards Flickr is long, long gone, like over 10 years gone.
The 'partner discount' on Adobe is 15% in the first year only of a full Adobe Creative Cloud Membership. It won't allow application on a Lightroom/Photoshop only subscription for example, it has to be the complete suite of all Adobe applications.
nukecoke
⚛Yashica
See my signature
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
Tumlpr, shmagmag are dusty corners, IMO. I can't stand instacrap and FB is not for pictures viewing.
Flickr for me to see pictures from great photos like Helen and Junku. Normally sized and in normal quality.
I'm just not sure why it is "news". Then I accidentally mistook flickr emails as spam, my Pro for 24 account was closed due to expired CC. I reactivated it few months ago and it was six bucks a month already.
This one is from Oct.8:
Merchant:
Flickr, Inc., P.O. Box 390123, Mountain View, CA 94039
Order #:
fssfk
Product:
1 Month Flickr Pro
Payment Method:
dsdll
Amount:
$5.99
What is even more curios, is my payment history. It stops at March this year on Flickr account page.
Flickr for me to see pictures from great photos like Helen and Junku. Normally sized and in normal quality.
I'm just not sure why it is "news". Then I accidentally mistook flickr emails as spam, my Pro for 24 account was closed due to expired CC. I reactivated it few months ago and it was six bucks a month already.
This one is from Oct.8:
Merchant:
Flickr, Inc., P.O. Box 390123, Mountain View, CA 94039
Order #:
fssfk
Product:
1 Month Flickr Pro
Payment Method:
dsdll
Amount:
$5.99
What is even more curios, is my payment history. It stops at March this year on Flickr account page.
farlymac
PF McFarland
The one thing I haven't noticed about the new arrangement at Flickr is when do Pro accounts have to be upgraded? Do we have to do it now, or wait until the current one comes due? They're so concentrated on getting the free members to go Pro, I think they've overlooked this issue.
PF
PF
kiemchacsu
Well-known
That's really tough. In the past (says before 2013), older photos were not shown in top page of free account user, -but- still view-able if there were linked to forum before, such as RFF for instance.
Now I guess that many threads here with wonderful photos will be blank instead as new policy from flickr is activated.
I -only- use flickr to link photos to post in forum,
Any alternative platform that you folks can suggest?
I love the built-in BBCode generated from flickr so I can share very quickly.
uhoh7
Veteran
I'm pissed!! Double???
TYG Yahoo is out. The nagging to join was the worst thing about it.
But I prefer flickr to all the others still.
I think alot of people are using google.
Flickr is nice once you learn a few tricks. Early days I often cursed it.
If you like fast access to full size, and easy downloading, clean interface in browser, it's good. Mobile not quite as nice.
What are the hottest photo sharing locations for pros these days?
TYG Yahoo is out. The nagging to join was the worst thing about it.
But I prefer flickr to all the others still.
I think alot of people are using google.
Flickr is nice once you learn a few tricks. Early days I often cursed it.
If you like fast access to full size, and easy downloading, clean interface in browser, it's good. Mobile not quite as nice.
What are the hottest photo sharing locations for pros these days?
nickthetasmaniac
Veteran
Between this and PhotoBucket, there's going to be an awful lot of dead image links floating around forums like RFF... The lens sample thread are going to be a pretty sad place 
Contarama
Well-known
Between this and PhotoBucket, there's going to be an awful lot of dead image links floating around forums like RFF... The lens sample thread are going to be a pretty sad place
Funny how that works
Flickr is cool. I am pretty fond of my flickr friends, a few of you RFF folks included, even the TS
50 bones sounds pretty reasonable to me...someone has to pay for stuff
Photobucket. Remember that. Maybe flickr will do it a smarter better way. Sure would be sad to see them screw up something halfway decent
nickthetasmaniac
Veteran
Based on what Flickr themselves have said, it doesn't sound like they're going to do it a smarter way...
'After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted.'
https://www.flickr.com/lookingahead...Flickr&utm_medium=blog&utm_content=1000photos
sevres_babylone
Veteran
Flickr is giving 3 months notice. I have never used photobucket but my recollection of the discussions were that they deleted pictures without much if any notice.
Contarama
Well-known
Done that too and imo probably the best sort of hosts for images. That being said in the past 15 years I have let at least 3 server spaces I could filezilla access go dark in which I had many images contained within subfolder stashes.
Still have all that data filed here and there in various ways. The 21st century photoalbum/personal stuff scrapbook.
I won't miss my flickr photostream so much...my flickr friends streams though I would miss
jarski
Veteran
Same. Flickr has one purpose for me still, to host and share photos to forums that don't do this well, e.g here in RFF. That is around two photos a year
Bille
Well-known
It will be 50$ annually from next year. I dont think that´s cheap for hosting. That´s the price of a 1TB SSD disk. 1TB will store 100.000 images in high resolution easily.
Ste_S
Well-known
They're going about it in a weird way for sure, announcing stuff that's going to push people away rather than bringing more people in.
I'd love it if they could turn the platform around and attract photographers back to it from Instagram, but on current form it doesn't look as though they can.
Michael Markey
Veteran
Must admit I never considered Flickr for storage.
I do that on hard disks.
For me its for sharing but primarily for the community .
I`m on Ipernity (which is a dud as far as I`m concerned ) and also on Instagram.
Instagram is ok but I rarely hashtag anything I post on there.
ptpdprinter
Veteran
You mean as an SD card dump?
Out to Lunch
Ventor
I wonder what is behind the steep price increase for the yearly Pro subscription. In my case from $22,50 a year -with a two year subscription, to $50 a year.